posted: Aug. 18, 2022.

PHOTO CREDIT @Rosalind Banks; Art By Rosalind @Facebook Previously published: https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/2022/06/12/college-students-are-struggling-are-schools-doing-enough-help      I just returned from a law school graduation at the shockingly beautiful Cornell campus. Once known as a pressure Read more

posted: Apr. 09, 2022.

A Memoir in 5 Parts LOSS: I was born in New York, New York. NYC. The Big Apple. Nothing too dramatic happened. I attended Rivervale, NJ Elementary School until first grade. Read more

posted: Apr. 04, 2022.

     Once I was waiting in a crowded city waiting room, in the paralyzing dread of my upcoming amniocentesis.  These were the days before trigger warnings.  I just sat Read more

posted: Mar. 13, 2022.

      By now we've discussed pandemic fatigue, languishing, anxiety, lack of services, suicide rates, social media, FOMO, triggers, fake news, school shootings, a former narcissistic, toxic, grandiose and Read more

posted: Feb. 07, 2022.

Let’s get rid of it.  The hook-up culture. I don’t know when it started. But let’s stop it. I’m guessing it began as a feminist thing. We want casual sex Read more

posted: Jan. 01, 2022.

     As we enter this third year of pandemic madness (which I thought was going to be over in two weeks), I managed to work constantly while staying in Read more

posted: Dec. 11, 2021.

PHOTO CREDIT: Jennie Carr My phone rings three times a day with the same message: my teenage (daughter) needs someone to talk to.  I try to be my usual calm self. Read more

posted: Dec. 05, 2021.

Three weeks ago a former patient contacted me because she had suddenly recalled an episode from her past, so long ago it was nearly forgotten.  She wanted to sort it Read more

posted: Oct. 10, 2021.

**PHOTO CREDIT: AUDRA AVIZIENIS What is the latest on teens and mental health? How about the NY Times Expose on Instagram being bad for girls' mental health. Shocker alert!!!  Anyone who lives Read more

posted: Jul. 15, 2021.

     When my books flooded I was of course devastated.  Most of these I have duplicated on my kindle already.  But who can read anymore?  Lack of concentration, old Read more

posted: May 29, 2021.

Post Pandemic Teens: My landscaper said, after this the kids are "spiritually bankrupt."  He's right you know. There are a lot of kids and adults who are scared to leave the Read more

posted: Mar. 06, 2021.

Really it's so bad. Teens are in trouble. The teens in my group are laughing and screaming, alone in their rooms or wandering in cars or sitting on zoom-homework or Read more

posted: Dec. 25, 2020.

I studied family therapy for many years. Then I studied working with teens. Then I studied trauma. So when I got a new case that had all three I thought, Read more

posted: Nov. 10, 2020.

***Photo Credit: Rebecca Weston Corona Times Every day my phone rings, a parent calling for their 13 yo daughter with depression; or a young adult asking about therapy for isolation/anxiety.  What is Read more

posted: Sep. 29, 2020.

**photo credit: Rosalind Bank I get it, you get it.  For me it only started when my kids began driving.  While I'm sitting in my peaceful suburban bubble working away, the Read more

posted: Sep. 17, 2020.

I kept away from trauma treatment for a long time; I thought it would make me depressed. Yet now that we're in a pandemic, I decided to dive in.  More and Read more